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Bringing a Scientific Background to Policymaking
Former American Cancer Society grantee Neha Pankow already had a transdisciplinary background in engineering, biophysics, and cancer cell biology.
Now she’s added policymaking to the mix.
As a AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow at the National Science Foundation, she’s helping to develop policy for gender equity, STEM education, and the pursuit of interdisciplinary science.
3:20 – On how and why she became a AAAS fellow:
“I would say I’ve been interested in policy-related issues for most of my life, but I was definitely a scientist inside, and I never knew how to bridge those two things. For me the AAAS fellowship is doing exactly that.”
10:30 – On how her experience has opened new doors:
“And I thought this too as a graduate student and as a postdoc, that any kind of sidestep from my career meant that I was going to be throwing away everything that I had done until that point of time. And that’s absolutely not true. Especially for the AAAS fellowship I’ve seen friends and alumni who have either go back to academia because that’s what they wanted to do, I’ve seen people who have gone into working for nonprofits, people who work for federal agencies…”
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Former American Cancer Society grantee Neha Pankow already had a transdisciplinary background in engineering, biophysics, and cancer cell biology.
Now she’s added policymaking to the mix.
As a AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow at the National Science Foundation, she’s helping to develop policy for gender equity, STEM education, and the pursuit of interdisciplinary science.
3:20 – On how and why she became a AAAS fellow:
“I would say I’ve been interested in policy-related issues for most of my life, but I was definitely a scientist inside, and I never knew how to bridge those two things. For me the AAAS fellowship is doing exactly that.”
10:30 – On how her experience has opened new doors:
“And I thought this too as a graduate student and as a postdoc, that any kind of sidestep from my career meant that I was going to be throwing away everything that I had done until that point of time. And that’s absolutely not true. Especially for the AAAS fellowship I’ve seen friends and alumni who have either go back to academia because that’s what they wanted to do, I’ve seen people who have gone into working for nonprofits, people who work for federal agencies…”